The article we are commenting on points out that backpressure is not easily handled by the given tools of Node.js it speaks of a way to fix it from crashing from memory overload. The comment above points out in a way that I understood as Node being bad for not having a way to deal with backpressure with its own tools. The link I shared shows that Node.js does have a built in tool in streams to handle that exact problem. As other comments have said having too many connections will always eventually crash a single server. So my question is what will save you? Can it be done in the JS part of Node? Can it be done in a Node C and C++ module? I look at my self as a beginner when it comes to these things so I would surely enjoy an informative response.